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Ridgewood students and staff win NJ award for Unified inclusion program; district plans expansion
Summary
The district's Unified inclusion program, which combines Unified Sports, Friends of Unified, events and electives, earned a New Jersey School Boards award. Presenters described plans to expand electives and appoint building Unified reps to grow inclusion across every school.
At the Ridgewood Public School District's board meeting, educators and students presented the district's Unified inclusion program and announced it won recognition from the New Jersey School Boards Association for its Unified electives.
Doug Aday, a district teacher who leads the program, told the board the initiative began five years ago as Unified Sports and has since grown into an umbrella program that includes Unified Sports, Friends of Unified (community outings and socials), Unified events (in-school inclusion activities) and Unified electives at Ridgewood High School. "Unified Sports is what's growing…
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